Susan Johnson wrote:

>Bingo.  And thank you, Virginia.  Human milk needs to become a status
symbol cross-culturally and breastfeeding, more importantly, needs to be
the "look" women seek as mothers.

>One of the grand things about promoting breastfeeding over human milk is
that we are promoting mothering and empowerment over a commodity.  If we
associate, say, the physical holding of an infant, for example, with
breastfeeding rather than "only" a quantity or quality of milk I think we
gain greater ground.

>More and more I see recognition of the innumerable components of the
nursing relationship as a way of breaking down *breastfeeding* into steps
anyone might embrace.  A mother who sees herself anywhere on the continuum
of the breastfeeding relationship is seeing herself as a breastfeeding
mother.  She is one step closer to other mothers rather than one step
further apart.

Susan Johnson MFA, IBCLC, RLC
Salt Lake City, Utah USA

Well said, Susan, about "the 'look' women seek as mothers", the way to gain
greater ground, and "the continuum of the breastfeeding relationship"!  May
I quote you often in LLL, breastfeeding coalition, and public health
contexts?!

Ruth Piatak
-- 
Ruth Piatak, BA, MS, LLLL, IBCLC
Tulsa, Oklahoma
214-886-1218
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